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Fun fact: The raid was over alleged classified material in Bolton’s book from 2020, the same year the Justice Department ran into a brick wall in trying to prosecute him for the same. It also comes just a week after Bolton on CNN said “I thought Trump looked very tired up there. I mean, very tired. Not disappointed. Tired. And we’ll have to reflect on what that means,” after the failed Alaska summit.

Basically telling convicted felon President Trump to go fuck himself on Friday, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told a crowd of rich guys and economy geeks that “GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year to a pace of 1.2 percent, roughly half the 2.5 percent pace in 2024. The decline in growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending. As with the labor market, some of the slowing in GDP likely reflects slower growth of supply or potential output. Turning to inflation, higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods. Estimates based on the latest available data indicate that total PCE prices rose 2.6 percent over the 12 months ending in July. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices rose 2.9 percent, above their level a year ago. Within core, prices of goods increased 1.1 percent over the past 12 months, a notable shift from the modest decline seen over the course of 2024. In contrast, housing services inflation remains on a downward trend, and non-housing services inflation is still running at a level a bit above what has been historically consistent with 2 percent inflation.”

“The effects of tariffs on consumer prices are now clearly visible. We expect those effects to accumulate over coming months, with high uncertainty about timing and amounts. The question that matters for monetary policy is whether these price increases are likely to materially raise the risk of an ongoing inflation problem,” Powell continued, according to his prepared remarks at Jackson Hole.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells NBC News there’s no meeting planned between dictator Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, contradicting convicted felon President Trump’s fantasies of brokering an end to the war within the near or middle term.

“Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all. President Putin said clearly that he is ready to meet provided this meeting is really going to have an agenda, presidential agenda,” said Lavrov, making it clear they’re dragging this out.

Cracker Barrel’s CEO this morning: “Okay, what if we bring back the logo, but he’s trans?”

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 22, 2025

“I think Cracker Barrel is fixing to Bud Light themselves”

We asked people what they think about the new Cracker Barrel logo. Here’s what they said. pic.twitter.com/cZyFKw4lR0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 22, 2025

This informational packet on creating LGBT safe spaces was distributed at Cracker Barrel’s corporate office in recent years.

It says a safe zone community "will not tolerate heterosexist, c*sgenderism comments & actions."

Do you think CB customers want to fund this? pic.twitter.com/plOcHXaMv8

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 22, 2025

Citing the differences between the New York Times and the New York Post’s reporting on the raid on former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home in Maryland on Friday morning, the New Republic’s Greg Sargent highlights how the Post does not mention a judge approving a warrant, writing “Federal agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md, at 7 AM in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post,” while the Times writes “Asked about the visible FBI presence at Bolton’s home, a spokesperson for the bureau said agents were ‘conducting court-authorized activity in the area.'” Soooooo… Yeah, that’s weird.

Also note how the Post’s timestamp says “7:12 AM” EDT, and thus 12 minutes after the raid began.

FBI agents have executed a warrant on former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home in Maryland for who knows what fake reason even while the real one’s obvious, Fox News reports.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered dog-murdering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to stop shipping new inmates to Alligator Alcatraz and to begin dismantling certain parts of the gulag.

The Orange God Emperor is out and about in DC, now talking about how grass is alive that it has a life just like you. Seriously the fat fuck literally just said that in his demented rant.

Cracker Barrel lost almost $100 million in market value after its stock plunged Thursday following the release of a new logo that small-faced propagandist Charlie Kirk blamed on a “key woke reformer in the company was also part of the advisory board at the Human Rights Campaign, which promotes LGBTQ propaganda and scores companies on ‘progressive’ values. The former president of HRC admitted they were obsessed with targeting Cracker Barrel to force through woke reforms.”

Seriously Charlie Kirk fucking tweeted that nonsense about goddamned Cracker Barrel’s logo.

“The Executive branch has perpetuated Alina Habba’s appointment to act as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey through a novel series of legal and personnel moves. Along the way, it has disagreed with the Judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and criminal defendants in that District about who should or may lead the office. Faced with the question of whether Ms Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, I conclude that she is not,” writes the Middle District of Pennsylvania’s chief federal Circuit Judge Matthew Brann in a ruling in two cases challenging Habba’s lawful authority to prosecute them. Brann had stepped in from the neighboring jurisdiction to “specially preside” over any potential conflict of interest in the Garden State.

Responding to a written question from the Associated Press, the Trump regime’s State Department said that all 55 million US visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” for any indication that they could be ineligible for their visa and thus subject to deportation by some likely arbitrary criteria.

“We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility,” the department said without explaining their “review” process.

Convicted felon President Trump and Howard Nutlick’s Commerce Department, under the imprimatur of something something tariffs, opened a “national security investigation” into the import of components used to construct wind turbines, Reuters reports on more of this stupid shit.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said he’s “instructed to begin immediate negotiations for the release of all our hostages and the end of the war under conditions acceptable to Israel,” Axios’s Barak Ravid reports with a bunch of “🚨🚨🚨🚨” emojis indicating big news.

The “conditions acceptable to Israel” likely the rub there so he can just find something to back out over and resume bombing Gaza civilians indiscriminately while however remaining hostages starve.

Shitty British rag the Telegraph reports that future editions of a new book “Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York” by historian Andrew Lownie have been edited to remove a passage claiming that dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein introduced future Third Lady Melania Knavs to Epstein’s best bud Donald Trump. The passage appears in a chapter about Jeff’s other pal Prince Andrew, the rapey black sheep of the family, in a book for which 60,000 physical print copies have already been sold and can’t exactly be recalled like a 2022 Kia Sorrento with potentially faulty brake calipers.

“We can confirm that several passages from Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie have been removed in consultation with the author. Entitled is published in the UK by HarperCollins. In the US, the book is self-published by Mr Lownie,” said a spokesperson for HaperCollins and lol this is too goddamned good given that none other than Rupert Murdoch, who owns the publishing house, is already on Donald’s vexatious litigation shitlist for the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on other mid-2000s Trump-Epstein friendship-related matters.

Now while the edit is obviously to avoid the same threats that have led to retractions from the Daily Beast, James Carville, and a non-retraction from Hunter Biden on the same matter, it’s not clear where Lownie himself stands on the self-published US editions of his tome. But unlike Hunter, Carville, and the Beast, the assertion seems to be completely independent of the one by not-terribly reliable narrator Michael Wolff. The Telegraph writes that Lownie’s book quotes “allegations said to have been made by Epstein to an unidentified author in 2007” somewhere around where it describes Prince Andrew as “easy prey for a rattlesnake like Epstein” and that the dead sex trafficker “played Andrew. The prince was a useful idiot who gave him respectability, access to political leaders and business opportunities. He found him easy to exploit.” Sounds like someone else we know, right?

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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 21, 2025

James Dobson, an early Evangelical supporter of pornstar-fucking adjudicated rapist and suspected statutory rapist President Donald Trump, died this week at age 92, USA Today reports.

“Dr Dobson was a pioneer—a man of deep conviction whose voice shaped the way generations view faith, family and culture. His bold leadership, integrity, and compassion helped equip countless families to thrive in a world of shifting values. He was a mentor, a counselor, and a steady voice of truth in turbulent times,” said Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy at the Dr James Dobson Family Institute. Dobson’s main propaganda organization was “Focus on the Family,” which opposed LGBTQ and abortion rights as its main tentacles of influence on the American right.

Finding the now $527 million penalty against the fat fuck’s corrupt business empire “excessive” a mid-level New York State Appeals Court on Thursday tossed the judgment in Attorney General Letitia James’s fraud lawsuit against convicted felon President Trump, the AP reports.

“While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants’ business culture, the court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” Judges Dianne T Renwick and Peter H Moulton wrote in one of several opinions on the appeals court’s ruling. What if anything the Orange Shitbag actually owes now is unclear.

Said Trump minion Lindsey Halligan on Newsmax this morning: “While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation’s history, you can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress… we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress,” as though there wasn’t any progress and slavery was not actually ended or that the whole fucking point of educating current and future generations about the evils of Antebellum slavery is to ensure that nothing even remotely like it ever happens again to anyone, anywhere on American soil or elsewhere in the world.

Warning of unspecified “harsh measures” against the state of Colorado if convicted felon former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters isn’t pardoned, convicted felon President Trump on Thursday angrily posted “FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State.”

“Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election. She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!” Trump continued, imposing his will against the state for punishing a criminal who tampered with election equipment and cost taxpayers over a million dollars in replacing the Dominion Voting Systems tabulators she compromised in 2021.